Masters of Social Gastronomy: Celebrity Chefs! (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman and Jonathan Soma
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
Soma was born in the South, is what someone from the North would say. He co-founded the Brainery, is the sciencey half of Masters of Social Gastronomy, and plans on getting married to Waffle House. In his more droll moments he is a tragic sellout to higher ed as a professor of data journalism at Columbia University's journalism school.
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Fame, fortune and food -- what makes a celebrity chef and where did they come from?
This month, Sarah will bring you the stories of three proto-celebrity chefs: Marie-Antoine Careme, French orphan, pastry chef and sugar worker to the stars; Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico's in NYC, the chef that made Baked Alaska Famous; and Prince Ranjit Smile, an Indian-Muslim immgrant, New York Chef, and incorrigible ladies' man. Later, she'll dish gossip on the early years of The Food Network.
Soma refuses to say anything other than "he's gonna take you on a wild ride to Flavortown," featuring the life and times of Guy Fieri, who is potentially the only Food Network star who hasn't been milkshake ducked.